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Spotify

Thinking of taking the plunge and moving into the 21st century by joining up to Spotify or some similar service. I figure it might mean I end up listening to music more than I do currently, where it's basically just in the car if I'm going on a long drive.

Anyway, any advice, thoughts or discussion about the service or any competitor - particularly if it's any help in my decision to join up or not - welcome here!

Spotify is the nuts. Pretty much make any sort of playlist with damn near any song you want. Cool thing is, though, thereís some algorithm that takes what you put into your playlists, then it creates a new weekly playlist for you which helps to discover new artists based on whatever genres you have in your original playlists. For instance, Iíve got just one mega playlist with everything from hip hop to current pop to punk rock. Each week, it creates a hip hop playlist, a punk rock playlist, etc.

I love Spotify, I got it a couple of years ago when I realised that I would buy an album roughly every month and instead of paying $10ish for one album a month I could just pay $10 for every single album ever each month. The maths made sense in my brain.

Did anyone else get their yearly wrap reports?

My top singer was Frank Turner but my top song was a relaxation track my wife listens to when she goes to bed. lol

The way I organise my playlists is by release year. I have folders for each decade and then within those folders each release year. Kind of anal and took a while to get everything I like in but it works well as you can play either by entire decade folders or each year.

I think it has to with not only the artist not allowing their stuff on there (Taylor Swift refused to have her stuff on there for years; I'm thinking either JayZ or Kanye also refuse), but I believe certain record labels can refuse, as well. Like, one of my favorite bands as their first three albums on Spotify, but their fourth album that was released by a different label isn't on there. In general, though, you should be able to find most anything you want.

Ughhhh, haven't been able to listen at work for the past few days. Not sure if they intentionally blocked it (even though company policy says we can listen it, local management may have different ideas) or if it's just some weird setting but it's ANNOYING. Funny that I hardly used it two years ago but now I've come to rely on it to get me through the day.